Sweet summer in a bowl! Cooked millet in an orange almond paste dressing forms the base of the salad. The test is a bit different than the usual salad: no leafy greens. Instead I used grated fennel and carrots. Topped with pine nuts and Medjoul dates.

Paleo and millet

Since millet is a pseudograin it is not Paleo and therefor not suited for AIP either. If you want to venture out a bit, millet is a great option to start with.

Medical Medium and millet

All pseudograins are glutenfree and can be eaten as filler foods within the Medical Medium lifestyle. It’s actually way on top of the preferred grains (with oats, quinoa, amaranth and teff a bit behind).

Millet salad with peaches, fennel, carrots and dates

ME (Marjolein Eikenboom)

Lovely salad bowl with cooked millet in a orange almond paste dressing.

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Prep Time 10

Total Time 10

Free from beef, chicken, ferment, fish, grains, legumes, nuts, oils, peanuts

Diet medical medium, paleo

Keyword spring/summer

Cuisine Mediterranean, Middle-Eastern

Course salad

Servings servings or 1 large

Calories 501

Equipment

small cooking pan with lid
bowl
grater
sieve optional

Ingredients

1 cup millet
2 cups water
2 large peaches
1 fennel
½ cup carrots
2 tbsp pine nuts

Dressing

½ orange
2 tbsp almond paste
2 tbsp raw honey

Instructions

Wash the millet, best to use a sieve and running water. This water is not the water mentioned in the ingredient list, that is for cooking the millet.
Put the millet with water in a cooking pan. Let it cook softly with the lid on for 19 minutes. When cooked leave it in the pan with the lit open. It will still absorb some water.
Squeeze the half orange. Mix with the honey. Mix with the millet.
Add the almond paste and mix. Don't bother mixing it wit the honey and orange first, that 'll just be too sticky.
Grate the fennel bulb and the carrots. Cut the dates in small pieces. Mix with the millet.
Spoon the salad onto plates and top with the dates and pine nuts. Optional: roast the pine nuts before servng